Connecting from home

To connect your home computer to the computing resources at the School Board of Alachua County, you will need an Internet Service Provider. You may use any ISP that you wish, such as AOL, GRU, BellSouth or Cox.

Online Grades

Once you have established Internet service, you can access online grading. You can do this by opening Internet Explorer (not Nescape) and in the address field, enter http://www2.sbac.edu/~cics The first time you use this you may be asked to download Active X. This is necessary for the program to work.

If you would rather install QWS3270, Windows users, download QWS3270 (you will need to obtain a username and password from the helpdesk before downloading) or for Macintosh users, download Comet.

NOTE - CICS is not available every evening from 6:00 until 7:00pm due to system backups.

Helpdesk contact information

SBAC Helpdesk number      955-7500 ext. 226

SBAC Helpdesk hours are M-Th 8am - 5pm and Fri 8am - 4:30pm

Email help FIRN Helpdesk email      support@firn2.net

SBAC Helpdesk email      helpdesk@sbac.edu
 

Last updated: 11/3/2004